Georgia Heart Institute is excited to welcome Stan Underwood, AGACNP, to the care team! A Habersham county native, Stan will be seeing patients in Demorest and Toccoa. Prior to joining Georgia Heart Institute as a nurse practitioner, he was a registered nurse at NGMC Gainesville

We're excited to have Stavros Drakos, MD, PhD, join us for Grand Rounds next week on Wednesday, April 2 at 7:00AM EST! Dr. Drakos is a professor of medicine and co-chief of Heart Failure & Transplant at University of Utah Health. We're looking forward to learning from him on the

A newly approved medicine is helping people suffering from ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy live longer, healthier lives -- and Georgia Heart Institute helped make it happen. Cardiologist Dr. Ugochukwu Egolum was among researchers who studied how vutrisiran can prevent death

Georgia Heart Institute is excited to welcome Haley Harrison as our new Vice President! Haley brings not only a deep understanding of this region but also a wealth of experience at all levels of health care, from serving on the front lines as an emergency room registered nurse to

NGMC Gainesville received a Silver Accreditation Milestone from IAC | Intersocietal Accreditation Commission recognizing quality patient care in echocardiography since 2000. Congratulations to the Echo & Vascular team for their commitment to continuous improvement in patient safety and outcomes! Learn more about

The next edition of Georgia Heart Institute Grand Rounds is on Wednesday, May 14, at 7:00 a.m.! Join us as we learn from J. Michael Smith, MD, renowned cardiac surgeon at The Christ Hospital, about the considerations in treating infective endocarditis in opioid-addicted patients.

Connie Watts, AGACNP, is returning to Georgia Heart Institute in Toccoa! She has been caring for patients for over 30 years, and 10 of those have been spent as a nurse practitioner. She is passionate about preventing cardiovascular disease and educating patients about nurturing

We hope you can join us for the next Georgia Heart Institute Grand Rounds on Wednesday, June 4! This event will feature two talks from two of our Cardiovascular Disease Fellows — Alex Adams, DO, PGY-6 Chief Fellow, will be speaking on "Cardiac CCTA: Left Atrial Appendage

Join us in congratulating the Georgia Heart Institute research team for ranking #2 among centers enrolling participants in the DISCOVER INOCA clinical trial! NGMC Gainesville surpassed Stanford Hospital and ranks behind only Yale New Haven Hospital among the nine centers involved

Join us in welcoming Charyl Hermann, AGNP, to the Georgia Heart Institute team! Charyl is caring for patients at our location in Gainesville, where she also cared for patients as a cardiology nurse for nearly 20 years. She's passionate about improving patients' cardiac health and

Congratulations to the inaugural graduating class of the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at Georgia Heart Institute! These six physicians completed 24 months of clinical training to prepare them for their careers in cardiology. - Dr. Alex Matthew Adams - Baptist Health,

We're excited to announce that Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) has been named a DNV Cardiac Center of Excellence! Achieving this status was the result of the successful certification of three service lines: Heart Failure, Extracorporeal Life Support (ECMO), and

The Nuclear Cardiology team recently performed its first FDG PET/CT scan for infective endocarditis to evaluate a patient for pacemaker lead infection. That makes NGMC Gainesville the first and only cardiology center in Atlanta and north Georgia to offer this advanced imaging

We’re excited to welcome the newest class of #CVD fellows! Join us in congratulating them on this next step of their journey to providing excellent cardiac care to their patients.

Georgia Heart Institute is excited to welcome Gautham Kanagaraj, MD, a cardiac electrophysiologist who practices in Braselton and Gainesville. Dr. Kanagaraj's main clinical interests include the treatment of heart rhythm disorders with lifestyle modification, catheter ablation,

Georgia Heart Institute is excited to welcome Mudassar Ahmed, MD, MBA, as Chief Cardiology Officer. Dr. Ahmed is an interventional cardiologist who specializes in minimally invasive treatments for heart valve disease. He previously served as medical director of the cardiovascular

Georgia Heart Institute is excited to welcome Emmanuel Olayiwola Amoran, MD, a non-invasive cardiologist seeing patients in Gainesville and Clayton. Dr. Amoran was a member of the inaugural class of Cardiovascular Disease Fellows at NGMC Gainesville. His clinical interests

We are excited to welcome Robin Brown, AGACNP, back to Georgia Heart Institute! With over 20 years of experience in direct patient care, Robin is caring for heart failure patients in Braselton. Robin is local to the Braselton community and when she's not seeing patients, she's

We are excited to share that the Structural Heart Center successfully completed the program's first three EVOQUE Tricuspid Valve Replacements yesterday! Our multidisciplinary heart team, led by Ronnie Ramadan, MD, director of the Structural Heart Center, Sloane Guy, MD, director

Georgia Heart Institute and NGHS were proud to sponsor the 2025 Hall County Heart Walk on September 25. More than 300 community members gathered at Midland Greenway for an evening focused on heart health and prevention. Dr. Mudassar Ahmed, Chief Cardiology Officer for Georgia